http://www.allvoices.com/ en-us Softbank Group announced this week that they were about to build their solar-panel electricity generation plants in Kyoto-city and Gumma-prefecture respectively from April. Both of those plants are projected to start operation as early as July this year when a... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11676003-megasolar-generation-plants-in-kyoto-and-gumma Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:26:43 -0800 Dragon is a legendary creature, typically with serpentine or reptilian traits, that feature in the myths of many cultures.For Japan, China, Korea and other east asian countries, the new year means a year of dragon. The dragons are said to... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11200595-the-dragon-year Sat, 31 Dec 2011 00:25:21 -0800 One of the most attractive winter events at the Asahiyama-zoo, Hokkaido is the Penguins' walk in the park together with visiting kids. At 11am fifteen king-penguins and two gentoo penguins joined the visitors in the park amid snow and enjoyed... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11064671-penguins-swaying-walk-on-the-snow-at-asahiyamazoo-hokkaido Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:09:02 -0800 Ryo Ishikawa (20) is the most popular and loved golf player here in Japan. Five years ago at the age of 15 he won the first professional tour in 2007. This recorded the youngest title ever of the professional golf... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/11025934-golf-player-ishikawa-donates-17-millions-to-the-cause Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:34:14 -0800 Prof. Yasuteru Urano of Tokyo University and Dr. Hisataka Kobayashi of U.S. National Institute of Health successfully developed a fluorescence reagent which identify the cancer cells only by spraying to the doubtful regions. This agent can be used during the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10948044-fluorescence-reagent-developed-to-identify-cancer-cells-the-first-tech-in-the-world Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:24:13 -0800 Bhutan is known as the happiest country in Asia. The state religion is Vajrayana Buddhism, and the population of 691,000 is predominantly Buddhist, with Hinduism the second-largest religion. This country of the constitutional mornachy is unique in its quest for... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10917327-the-king-and-queen-of-bhutan-welcomed-in-japan Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:34:05 -0800 It's one of the three largest fire festivals in Japan. Sukagawa Taimatsu Akashi, or torches fire festival, took place on November 12th at Gorosan of Sukagawa-city in Fukushima prefecture attracting many spectators. This time round, the organizing committee of the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10861697-taimatsutorches-festival-in-sukagawacity-fukushima Sun, 13 Nov 2011 06:48:59 -0800 A research team of Ehime University, Kyoto University and other members announced that they had detected a light which indicated existance of carbon in the galaxy located as far as some 12.5 billion light-years away through the observation using the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10563321-carbon-observed-in-the-radio-galaxy-125-billion-years-ago Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:14:59 -0700 It snowed yesterday here and there in Japan. In Hokkaido it recorded the coldest temperature of this season. It was close to zero degree Celsius at places including Asahikawa city. The first snow at this time of the year falls... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10517031-the-first-snows-in-japan Tue, 04 Oct 2011 07:23:02 -0700 Toyota Industries Corporation, one of the TOYOTA group member companies, announced that they successfully developed a car driven by the air engine which achieved the fastest record of 129.2 kilometers per hour. This car is equipped with a compressor which... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10418923-air-engined-car-records-the-fastest-of-1292-kilometershour Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:28:43 -0700 My friend wrote in the facebook group that she couldn't find any good book on Buddhism written in English. That reminded me of my experience when I tried to find Buddhism book, yet in vain, for my German friend some... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10346248-why-not-good-book-on-buddhism-available Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:05:09 -0700 Goya, or bitter melon, is an especially popular shade-producing plant because it has dense leaves and produces vegetables, too. This time round, the Goya have been used for the purpose of saving consumption of the electricity in the Metropolitan areas... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10250516-green-curtain-of-goya-to-save-electricity-consumption-in-tokyo Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:25:32 -0700 The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) publisized a video picture of the typhoon No.12 as observed from the International Space Station (ISS.) This picture was shot by Satoshi Furukawa, an astronaut staying at ISS for the extended time period. According... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10226614-the-typhoon-12-observed-from-the-space-station Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:24:03 -0700 Since the March 11th earthquake and tsunami disasters, many volunteers from across Japan gather in the north-east areas to help various works from health-care, food & other supplies, clean-ups of the rubbles, building facilities to entertaining. There are even regular... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10143189-companies-set-up-holidays-for-volunteer-works-in-japan Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:17:35 -0700 It signifies the recent trend of inaugurating "kids' newspapers" that an expo launched in Yokohama on August 13th at the Japan Newspaper Museum exclusively for the papers addressed to the children. The exhibition include some eighty newspapers, free papers and... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/9968859-an-exposition-of-kids-newspapers-started-in-yokohama-japan Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:49:15 -0700 Amid the urgent necessity towards regenerative energies, the largest Mega-Solar generation plant started operation in Kawasaki, an adjacent city to Tokyo. Together with the other solar generation plant to operate in December also in the same city, total generation of... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/9922555-the-largest-megasolar-generation-starts-operation-in-kawasaki-japan Thu, 11 Aug 2011 02:00:28 -0700 Amid the summer heat, cooling measures yet not relied on the electricity are developed and being deployed across Japan. One of such efforts is a greenspace system using mosses on the roofs and walls on your building. This system was... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/9897390-why-dont-you-cool-your-roof-using-mosses Mon, 08 Aug 2011 18:15:32 -0700 The Lake Yamanaka-ko, one of the five lakes at the foot of Mt Fuji, cerebrated on August 1st the Houko-sai, a festival, to commemorate victims of the 3-11 earthquake/tsunami hit over the north-east Japan. Some 300 lanterns, made by the... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/9854349-tourounagashi-lanterns-afloat-the-lake-yamanakako-for-the-repose-of-victims-soul Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:23:08 -0700 In front of the Osaka Bay, the Mega Solar Generation plant of Kanden in Sakai, already in operation partly, will complete the extention works and start full generation during October 2011. This Mega Solar plant consists from some 70,000 solar... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/9825070-mega-solar-generation-plant-in-sakai-to-operate-first-in-japan Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:14:54 -0700 Aya Sameshima, one of the Women's World Cup champions "Nadeshiko" Japan, came back to Boston Breakers and joined the game vs NY Flash on July 24th. Just before the start of the game, Ms Sameshima was introduced as the World... info@allvoices.com http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/9766048-the-world-cup-soccer-champion-player-samejima-greeted-with-applause-in-us-wps Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:27:44 -0700